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    Mr. Lloyd said it would be better to leave the sentence out if there
were a real possibility Khrushchev were ready for such an arrangement,
but that it would be better to leave the sentence in if the paper were sim-
ply put forward as a propaganda gesture at the end.
    Mr. Couve de Murville agreed that it was essentially a question of
tactics. Basically, he said, the Western position was their July 28 paper.
    Mr. von Brentano agreed that the sentence might be left out if there
were a possibility of real discussion, but that this question should not
be
prejudged and that the sentence should be left in at this time.
    Secretary Herter said that Mr. Lloyd had raised an important ques-
tion, namely what Western arguments could be made publicly as soon
as the new Soviet proposal is published. At his suggestion, the Foreign
Ministers agreed that the Working Group should prepare such argu-
ments.
    Mr. Lloyd said that points which might be included were that Ber-
lin cannot remain a "free" city without the presence of Allied
troops,
that the Soviet proposal prejudged what would happen when the agree-
ment terminated, and the Western arguments on an all-German com-
mittee (which he believed were well presented in the Secretary's speech
of August 5, 1959).7
    With respect to an all-German committee, Mr. von Brentano said it
remained his Government's view that the German question should be
discussed among the Four Powers, with German consultants to be
called on as necessary.
    Following the discussion of Germany and Berlin there was a brief
exchange of information on the arrangements for the Western Heads of
Government and the East-West Summit meetings.8














    7For text of Herter's closing statement at the Geneva Foreign Ministers
meeting,
August 5, 1959, see Documents on Germany, 1944-1985, pp. 676-683.
    8An 11-line memorandum of this part of the conversation (US/MC/29) is
in Depart-
ment of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1664.